I think I tried to control situations within my first marriage and I wasn't the easiest person to live with.

I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate.

Being onstage is a way of harnessing your vulnerability and using the adrenaline to be creative. It's a very vulnerable place to be - technically, emotionally, and physically - but I love it.

I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

Your life is the same wherever you go.

Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

My instinct is to be very controlling.

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

Love is family, support, priority, and understanding.

I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.

Nothing can succeed in stopping a man that has mastered the infinite power of the subconscious mind from reaching the territory of greatness.

There is nothing to writing. You nourish your creativity for months and years until you release your baby out into the world.

I bet you have girls hanging all over you. Dozens would probably kill to be in my spot and here I am, allergic to your bread.” I looked up. “Why? Because of my near godlike perfection?

All too often we fail to ask what we are trying to sustain. Ultimately, sustainability must be measured by the endurance of thriving human communities.

When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.

The Germans are indeed the economically and politically strongest power in Europe. But their superiority does not equal the past and present superiority of the Americans.

The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.

We resist transition not because we can't accept the change, but because we can't accept letting go of that piece of ourselves that we have to give up when and because the situation has changed.